Examples of “exec” in a Sentence

noun An informal short form of "executive" — someone in a senior management role.

• The tech exec gave a short speech at the company picnic.
• My cousin became a senior exec at a shipping company last year.
• A record label exec signed the band after seeing them live.

verb In computing, to run or execute a program or command.

• The program will exec the new command as soon as you press enter.
• Use this function to exec another program from inside your script.
• The script execs a shell command in the background.